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Progress Ireland retweeted
Dublin is on track for 3m people. Do we want it to be:
A city with a strong centre accessed by rail, like Munich (on the left...)
OR...
A city with jobs spread out along highways like Dallas (right)?
Without deliberate planning and investment, we'll end up more like Dallas.
Progress Ireland retweeted
See the yellow dot? That's Dublin.
Of 24 rich-world cities with about 2 to 3 million people, only Auckland has less motorway and trunk road within 40 km of the city centre. Every European city here has at least three times Dublin's electrified rail.
Progress Ireland retweeted
Building housing in multiple small developments isn't going to solve the crisis, writes Seán Keyes - and big plans have advantages of their own jrnl.ie/7171753t
Progress Ireland retweeted
Ireland has a lot of hard problems to fix in our energy system. High electricity prices driven by expensive gas + rising wind costs. A grid that was built for a different era.
Progress Ireland retweeted
Last year I rode a big, modern, and completely empty train to Berryessa in California.
Copenhagen's metro, by contrast, carries 50x the riders per dollar spent on the California line.
A lesson on how to assess rail projects.
Thread below. 🧵
Link: surl.li/xubnmx
Progress Ireland retweeted
My piece on how other countries are addressing housing shortages was picked up by The Journal:
Other countries are struggling with urban housing scarcity - mid-rise buildings are just one possible solution they're exploring... jrnl.ie/7157316t
Progress Ireland retweeted
In Dublin, the median house price is around five times the median household income. In Sydney, it’s 14x.
Housing shortages and high prices are unfortunately common in cities across the world. Here are some things governments around the world are doing to solve their housing shortage.
Progress Ireland retweeted
Big metro stations are very expensive, said @EnglishRail. Also: modern automated trains accelerate and decelerate faster. So: smaller platforms with more frequent stops can move the same number of people at lower construction cost. This was Metrolink's design approach.
Progress Ireland retweeted
Next Wednesday, cabinet decides whether Metrolink advances to final tenders. Here are four good reasons to approve it.
1. Per kilometre, Metrolink would be mid-table among peers.
Progress Ireland retweeted
Irish transport cost-benefit analyses assume a project won't change how nearby land gets used. This discriminates against the most transformative projects, since hanging the city is the entire point of a metro.
Progress Ireland retweeted
We pay more for wind energy than other European countries.
In the latest auction for onshore wind in Germany, the average price was €50.60. In Ireland, it was €96.56, almost twice as much. Why do we pay so much more?
A thread:
Progress Ireland retweeted
Can Ireland deliver on its big infrastructure ambitions? 🏗️
Joining host @Keyes and opening speaker Sean Finlay at Day 2 of #MacGill2026 👉
🔹 Maria O’Dwyer
🔹 Prof. @BentFlyvbjerg
🔹 Robert Watt
🔹 Dr. Frances Ruane
@NotreDame
Progress Ireland retweeted
Good thread: loosening planning lowered housing costs on five continents.
Progress Ireland retweeted
We are looking forward to our opening Friday panel, "Can Ireland Deliver on its Big Infrastructure Ambitions?" This panel will bring together global leaders in infrastructure for what will surely be a fascinating conversation. Learn more at our website: macgillsummerschool.com
Progress Ireland retweeted
Could some environmental protection measures be more strategic and less of a block to building house? Progress Ireland argues the case: jrnl.ie/7088448t
Progress Ireland retweeted
A good housing indicator is how many young adults are living with their parents
Progress Ireland retweeted
“Our diagnosis of Ireland is that it’s bad at building.
A right-wing solution to that might be, ‘Deregulate the hell out of everything.’ The opposite side might say, ‘The problem is too much market.’
Our agenda borrows a bit of both.”
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